Barbara Samuel O'Neal is the author of more than thirty award-winning novels, including THE LOST RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS and
The Secret of Everything
A native of Colorado, Barbara loves teaching, travel, reading, writing, yoga, walking, food, cooking, photography and...okay, reality television.
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I’ve had a good number of requests to post the playlist for THE SECRET OF EVERYTHING, and here it is. I had no idea there was so much music in this book, honestly, but music is always playing in my head (and Tessa’s!), so I suppose it is no big surprise.
I had a soundtrack that [...]
We’re doing some spring cleaning around here and while transfering files from a box (really) to an actual file cabinet, I found this query.
It ended up leading to my first sale.
The phone number was my mother’s, by the way. I was too poor to have a phone of my own.
THE SECRET OF EVERYTHING is out today! To celebrate, a love song to breakfast.
PANCAKE KISSES, BACON HUGS
Why breakfast is the secret of everything
I suppose I should confess upfront that I am a morning person. I wake up cheery, chatty and at the very first fingers of sunlight creeping over the horizon. I [...]
THE SECRET OF EVERYTHING will be out in 27 26 days! Reader feedback so far has been extraordinary (check out the comments at GoodReads.com), and I’m very excited for everyone to read Tessa’s story.
To celebrate, I’ll offering a some little contests and giveaways over the next few weeks. This is the first one. I am giving away FOUR free ARCs of THE SECRET OF EVERYTHING. As soon as I draw names, I’ll run to the post office and mail them out, so you will have it by next Friday. [...]
My youngest son has a cat named Knucks, a long legged and elegant creature who must be coaxed and seduced into letting me play with him or pet him. He will play, he wants to play, and he especially wants me to rub his long black nose so he can purr almost silently, nose buried [...]
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Coming your way January 5, 2010:
FROM THE BACK COVER:
In this spectacular new novel, Barbara O’Neal delivers a generous helping of the best in life–family, food, and love–in the story of a woman’s search for the one thing worth more than anything.
At thirty-seven, Tessa Harlow is still working her way down her list of goals [...]
Happy to report The Lost Recipe For Happiness made the list.
In:
Beach reads for foodies;
A menu of summer treats to sate your literary hunger, Dianna Marder writes:
“The perfect foodie beach bag contains prime kitchen lit: books on food history, essays on sustainability, food-centric fiction (call it foodtion), and sentimental food memoirs, or foodoirs.
Foodoirs are celebrity confessionals [...]
I’ve spent the past few weeks going through the new book (formerly 100 Breakfasts now officially titled THE SECRET OF EVERYTHING). Ed and agents came back with suggestions and I had some thing I knew I wanted to smooth and fix, too.
I wish I could say I had a process I use, over and over [...]
I really really loved this review. From an Adelaide publication. (Newsletter, maybe?)
http://www.galaxyguides.com/newsletters/newsletter8_1.09.html#lostrecipe
My favorite part is that she quoted Zorba. One of my favorite movies of all time. (When I was pregnant, my fabulous sister took me to the play, and Anthony Quinn was playing his signature role. ) Anyway…..
THE LOST RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS
Barbara O’Neal
Published by Harper [...]
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